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1<br />

CREWE’D JOTTINGS<br />

Issue 7<br />

<strong>The</strong> GainesWood Phantom<br />

Terry Herbstreit printed off the above photo of this modified Phantom that was created by the<br />

craftsmen at P & A Wood (UK). Paul Wood of the same company kindly emailed this and other<br />

photos of the car to me and it created such an impact at the meeting, I thought I would share it<br />

with the rest of you. P & A Wood are well known <strong>for</strong> their very high standard of workmanship<br />

and the Gaineswood Phantom bares ample testament to this.<br />

JUNE 6 th . 2006 REPORT<br />

"Terms and Conditions of this Newsletter.<br />

<strong>The</strong> views expressed on this Newsletter are those of each Author and not<br />

necessarily those of the <strong>Roll</strong>s-<strong>Royce</strong> Club of Australia.<br />

<strong>The</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation contained in this material is only <strong>for</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation purposes.<br />

<strong>The</strong> material does not constitute advice and you should not rely on any<br />

material in this web site to make (or refrain from making) any decision or<br />

take (or refrain from taking) any action. We do not make any warranty or<br />

representation as to the accuracy or fitness <strong>for</strong> purpose of any material in<br />

this Newsletter.<br />

In no event do we accept liability of any description, including liability<br />

<strong>for</strong> negligence, <strong>for</strong> any damages or losses (including, without limitation,<br />

loss of business, revenue, profits, or consequential loss) whatsoever<br />

resulting from use of or inability to use this Newsletter.<br />

<strong>The</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation contained in this Newsletter may contain technical<br />

inaccuracies and typographical errors. <strong>The</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation contains material<br />

submitted and created by third parties. We exclude all liability <strong>for</strong> any<br />

illegality arising from or error, omission or inaccuracy in such material"<br />

<strong>The</strong> purpose of these self-help gatherings is to gain a better understanding<br />

and a working knowledge of the vehicles in our charge.<br />

It does not nor is it intended to imply that the work carried out on these vehicles<br />

will replace the expert knowledge of those that specialise in this field.<br />

Each owner is strongly encouraged to keep his or her motorcar maintained<br />

by a qualified professional unless they have a thorough working knowledge of the<br />

vehicle themselves.


2<br />

A Gathering Of Clouds<br />

Members present:<br />

Terry Farrow, Laurence Bottomley, Peter Jordan-Hill, John Mantello, Peter Jeffery, David Wright,<br />

Casey Van Berkel, Gary Ayer, Simon Roberts, Nick Lang, Stephen Young, Mark Herbstreit, Terry<br />

Herbstreit, Neil Matthews, Eric Henderson, Paul Dabrowski, John Clements, Adrian Hill, Mark Walton,<br />

Kaye Farrow, Geoffrey May and Robert Wort.<br />

Friends present:<br />

Robert Harris, Scott young, Stephen Burrows, Alex Henderson and Elizabeth Wort.<br />

As with the last meeting, we enjoyed the generosity of Robert Harris in the use of his facilities at<br />

Roadstar Automotive in Cheltenham. If I was to sow seeds <strong>for</strong> a good attendance, then I certainly got a<br />

bumper crop, with no less than twenty-seven Members and Friends present.<br />

It’s hard to believe that our Technical Self-Help Group has already been in motion <strong>for</strong> over 1 year and at<br />

this meeting we were graced by the presence of two Presidents. Neil Matthews (Victoria Branch<br />

President) and Eric Henderson (Federal President) and we are deeply honoured to have had them both<br />

with us on the day.<br />

<strong>The</strong> only downside was that I brought along my new digital camera and in my ineptitude of all things<br />

modern, I didn’t realise that one needs a memory card <strong>for</strong> these contraptions and it only holds 6 photos<br />

in its inbuilt memory; there<strong>for</strong>e that is the only number of photos I could take on the day as there were<br />

no other cameras present.<br />

Motorcars attended to were Peter Jordan-Hill’s Silver Cloud 11, David Wright’s Silver Cloud 11, John<br />

Mantello’s Silver Cloud 1 and Eric Henderson’s Silver Shadow LWB.<br />

Peter had a few mysterious rattles that<br />

he wished to find and have eradicated<br />

and also wished to have his nonoriginal<br />

and non-functional airconditioning<br />

system removed. It<br />

seemed to have an endless supply of<br />

hoses and pipes.<br />

Never-the-less, Robert Harris and Neil<br />

Matthews rose to the occasion and<br />

proceeded to cut, pull and unscrew<br />

everything connected with it until<br />

every offending bit was removed.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y also found the mysterious rattle.<br />

<strong>The</strong> damn thing was emanating from<br />

the inside of the rear muffler. Time <strong>for</strong><br />

a new one methinks.


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While this was all going on, Terry Herbstreit investigated the smoking habits of Eric Henderson’s<br />

Shadow LWB. This was briefly investigated at the Federal Rally by Terry’s son, Mark up at Orange<br />

(New South Wales) and Mark quickly realised that the SU’s needed some attention. He freed the sticky<br />

choke butterflies but it was also evident that the needles and seats required replacement.<br />

With the necessary spares in hand, Terry H. carried out the task. A good indicator; no smoke on start up.<br />

We’ll keep a sharp eye out on the car’s per<strong>for</strong>mance over the next few weeks.<br />

Now it was David’s turn.<br />

David Wright has been having some gear change problems with his Cloud 11 and also has excessive<br />

travel on his handbrake. He, Mark H. and Nick Lang went <strong>for</strong> a test drive to check out the gear changes.<br />

David has already had a go at adjusting the transmission linkages and has succeeded in improving the<br />

speed range. He has however, adjusted it up a little too far as it was noticed that there was slight slippage<br />

between second and third speeds and also no kick-down.<br />

Nick noted that the idle speed was way too high and suggested that adjustment should start at carburettor<br />

level and fine-tune everything back from there to the linkages. Further investigations will ensue.<br />

David will affect further adjustments himself as there was no available time to do further work in this<br />

area as we also needed to look at the brakes.


<strong>The</strong> brakes have been ‘juddering’<br />

since he purchased the car and<br />

the handbrake had far too much<br />

travel.<br />

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We found an interesting culprit<br />

and this will be a timely warning<br />

to those who over tighten the<br />

wheel nuts when replacing the<br />

wheels. <strong>The</strong> studs on the lefthand<br />

front wheel hub were<br />

actually bent inwards, which<br />

stopped the brake drum from<br />

seating itself correctly on the<br />

trammel. This is the first time I<br />

have seen this sort of problem<br />

and hopefully it will be the last.<br />

<strong>The</strong> only remedy is to remove<br />

these studs and replace them.<br />

As far as the handbrake was<br />

concerned, it was found that<br />

sometime in the past, someone<br />

had fitted a non-standard cable,<br />

which was in fact too long.<br />

Rather than removing it, David<br />

will place a cable clamp on it<br />

and shorten it to the correct<br />

length. Meanwhile, Nick<br />

adjusted all the other linkages<br />

and a test drive afterwards has<br />

shown a marked improvement<br />

in the car’s braking.<br />

Further work, will of course<br />

need to be done.<br />

Time <strong>for</strong> lunch and the traditional ‘barbie’ was put into action.<br />

This gave our Federal President time to take the floor and announce that the ‘Le Mans’ winning <strong>Bentley</strong><br />

will be visiting Melbourne in July and that he has made special arrangements <strong>for</strong> club members to have<br />

a private viewing (God bless him). I’ll certainly be looking <strong>for</strong>ward to that.<br />

We also gave thanks to our benefactor, Robert Harris <strong>for</strong> once again providing us with his premises,<br />

Roadstar Automotive and to member, Laurence Bottomley <strong>for</strong> liaising between Robert H. and myself to<br />

get things happening in this regard.


We had just one more job to do apart from greasing all the joints on David’s Cloud 11, and that was to<br />

inspect the drip plugs on John Mantello’s Cloud 1.<br />

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John was concerned that the system was consuming too much oil but we were surprised how the whole<br />

system remained in good condition bearing in mind that this car has travelled over 300,000 miles in its<br />

lifetime. <strong>The</strong> oil as it turned out appeared to be too thin (<strong>The</strong> system requires 90 grade manual gear oil).<br />

Happily, oil is going to all the right places and there is no evidence of blockages.<br />

While it was up there, we gave all the grease nipples a lube and we showed John where all the<br />

lubricating points are.<br />

Shame there were no more photos but we’ll make up <strong>for</strong> it next time.<br />

I received a lot of positive comments regarding the self-help sessions and it is heartening to see that<br />

everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves.<br />

State President Neil Matthews will arrange our next meeting in August.<br />

We will be holding a Concours Judge training session and Neil will organise one Pre-War car and one<br />

Post-War car <strong>for</strong> the inspection.<br />

Members will have an ideal opportunity to see what the judges look <strong>for</strong> and how to prepare their entrants<br />

and we will also have an opportunity to inspect some very interesting cars close up.<br />

‘Til next time folks,<br />

Happy and safe motoring.<br />

Robert Wort<br />

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